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I-I. B. CAMP, TRAGK.

No. 555,801. Patented Mar. 3,1896.

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SPEGFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 555,801, dated March 3, 1896.. Application filed July 31, 1895. Serial No. 557,691. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, HORACE B. CAMP, a citizen of the United States,.residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tracks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in chairs and sleepers for railroads, and has especial relation to that class of railroads which have electricity for their motive power.

The objects of my invention are to provide a strong serviceable sleeper, not subject to decay, yet of such construction as will subserve all the requirements of the ordinary sleeper now in use; also to provide a suitable chair to rest on this sleeper and sustain the rail proper, which shall be strong, yet capable of such elasticity as will remove the jar incident to the passage of cars over the rail.

To the aforesaid objects my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, combination and arrangement of the various parts hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similarreference-numerals indicate like parts in both views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved chair and sleeper with its accompanying rail; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same at the line @c of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1 is the rail proper, of iron or steel, being made in the form of a T. On each side of the dependent portion of this rail are two wooden chairs 2 and 3 extending the entire length of the rail. rlhese chairs are made with a flat top having a width equal to the width of the under portions of the head of the rail from its central depending part to the outer edges of the head. The outer sides slope outwardly toward the base, which is much wider than the top, its section therefore being one-half of a truncated pyramid.

The two chairs are held against the dependent part of the rail and drawn toward each other by horizontal bolts it passing through both of them and through holes in the rail, pockets being cut in the outer sides of the chairs to receive the heads and nuts of the bolts. The bases of these chairs are in a horizontal plane and form a substantially solid block, resting on a sleeper 5, made of earthenware, having a section in the form of a truncated pyramid with a broad base. This sleeper 5 is hollow to insure evenness in burning, Aand the chairs 2 and 3 are fastened to it by a staybolt G, which hooks into a slot in the main partition, near the bottom of the sleeper 5, passing up through its upper surface, through one of the chairs, and out into a pocket cut into one of the inclined sides thereof, where it is fastened by a nut.

In practice I prefer to spread a thin layer of cement between the chairs and sleeper to insure a perfect joint. It is shown by the heavy line between them.

The two rails of the track are held at the correct distance apart by a tie-rod 7 consisting of a rod with its ends bent at right angles to its length. These rods pass through the inner chair, 3, and under the dependent portion of the rail, and their bent ends are firmly held between it and the other chair. At the joint between the ends of the rails are two iish-plates S made of angle-iron and set into the inner upper edges of the chairs, and are used to prevent the bending down of the rail ends by the weight of the car.

That I claim is- 1. `A track for railroads, consisting of a T- rail, a pair of wooden chairs arranged to rcceive the weight of said rail on their upper faces and clamp the dependent portion of said rail between them and an earthenware sleeper arranged to sustain said chairs on its upper face, substantially as shown and described.

2. A track for railroads consisting of a T- rail, a pair of wooden chairs having outwardlysloping sides and arranged to clamp the dependent portion of said rail, an earthenware sleeper also having outwardly-sloping sides and a stay-bolt arranged to unite said chairs and sleeper, substantially as shown and described.

3. A track for railroads, consisting of a T- rail, a pair of wooden chairs adapted to clamp between the dependent portion of said rail, an earthenware sleeper of substantially a truncated pyramid form, a stay-bolt adapted to unite said chairs and sleeper, and a tie-rod arranged to extend between the two rails of IOC said track and keep thein relatively parallel, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a track for railroads eonsistingof a T- rail, a pair of wooden chairs elarnped by bolts to each side of the dependent portion of said rail, the combination of a hollow earthenware sleepelgunited thereto by a stay-bolt, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a track for railroads,con sisting of a T- rail, a pair of wooden chairs, clamped about the dependent portion of said rail bybolts, a sleeper of hollow earthenware, united by a stay-bolt to said chairs, in combination with a tie-rod arranged to have its ends clamped between one of said chairs and rail and to passnnder said rail and through J[he other chair to the opposite side of said track, substantially as shown and described.'

G. A track for railroads Consisting` of a T- rail, a pair of wooden chairs, olainped about the dependent portion ol said rail by bolts, a tie-rod adapted to unite the two rails of said tracks, a hollow sleeper of eartlienware, in combination with a hooked stay-bolt to unite said chairs and sleeper, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand. HORACE B. OAMI.

In presence of- C. E. HUMPHREY, C. T. GRANT. 

